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AUGUST 4, 2020

They’d spent the past decade grappling with declining enrollments and weakening support from state governments. Demographics are working against institutions in parts of the country as the number of teens — and thus the number of high school graduates — drops. This story also appeared in NBC News.

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MARCH 22, 2023

When she needed money to start college, she was advised to borrow from a private lender instead of the federal government and, because of that, she’s stuck with $81,000 debt. She kept her job at her local Big Lots, where she had worked during high school. I’m frustrated, because, what can I do?

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JUNE 7, 2021

One high school study of small science classes concluded that class size had to fall to 10 or fewer students to reap academic gains. Class size reductions are unlikely to lead to sizable increases in student learning,” the authors of that 2012 study wrote. That’s hardly practical. Spoiler alert: achievement didn’t soar.)

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APRIL 6, 2020

Most of the increase was driven by older adults, according to Doug Shapiro, executive research director of the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center, rather than typical college-age students who had recently graduated from high school. The back-to-school rush didn’t happen right away. Here we go again,” said Baum.

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MAY 11, 2023

government, according to data from the American Alliance of Museums. schools Given this public trust, science museums across the nation are taking on a bigger role in supporting teachers in the classroom and helping learners think critically about science. Related: How the science of vaccination is taught (or not) in U.S.

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MARCH 28, 2017

One was that the university refuse to work with, or provide students’ immigration status to, government authorities. Meng So, director of the undocumented-student resource center at UC Berkeley since it became the first in the nation in 2012, said he’s gotten dozens of how-to inquiries from other schools.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

He graduated from high school with a Regents diploma in 2013 — a feat accomplished by only 18 percent of students with disabilities in New York City that year, compared to 70 percent of students without disabilities. Nationally, 76 percent of people with disabilities have high school diplomas and only 12 percent have college diplomas.

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APRIL 25, 2023

She would also lead an upcoming meeting on the school’s finances, including how to spend federal pandemic relief dollars. And she was running for the school’s governing board. The Boston Teachers Union Pilot School, where Snyder has worked since 2012, is a “teacher-powered” school.

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OCTOBER 27, 2021

Toward the end of filling out the class, there would definitely be a push to look for more men to admit,” said Medley, who was in her role at Brandeis from 2012 to 2014. Brandeis accepted 44 percent of male applicants compared to 36 percent of female applicants in 2012-2013, according to data the university reports to the federal government.

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JANUARY 15, 2018

National Center for Education Statistics, National Spending for Public Schools Increases for Second Consecutive Year in School Year 2014-15. Department of Education, reported that local, state and federal governments had collectively spent 2.8% more on public schools during the 2014-15 school year than in the previous year.

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JUNE 6, 2022

Yet students at Collins Elementary join the increasingly isolated ranks of those legally paddled at school. One is in college and two are in high school in another district. Schools are supposed to log instances of paddling within their walls, which districts are then supposed to compile.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

She watched from the backseat in August 2012 as the city gave way to the causeway, miles and miles of concrete bridge she hoped would ferry her to the future she’d been promised. Before Hurricane Katrina, just half of New Orleans public school students earned a high school diploma , and few went on to succeed at a university.

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OCTOBER 9, 2022

In high school, Carlos Granillo was a standout honor student and multisport athlete whose hard work earned him admission to the state’s flagship university, the University of Colorado Boulder. Coming from a high school in Aurora that was 60 percent to 70 percent Latino, he figured he’d find a good number of Latinos on campus.

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JULY 17, 2017

Hutchinson Central Technical High School senior Karolina Espinosa will be attending Buffalo State in the fall on a Say Yes tuition scholarship. When 18-year-old Karolina Espinosa looks back to her freshman year at Buffalo’s Hutchinson Central Technical High School, graduation seemed like a long shot. “At BUFFALO, N.Y.

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AUGUST 9, 2018

Temple has started a master’s degree in sport business, among the 41,446 degree or certificate programs colleges and universities have added since 2012. The federal government tracks only the total number of bachelor’s, associate and certificate programs, not the subjects they cover. Photo: Matt Rourke/The Associated Press.

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OCTOBER 14, 2020

Sophia Joffe, a high school senior who launched a database for enriched remote learning, at her family’s home in Thornhill, Ontario, Canada. Guiding high school peers through online learning maze. A Tufts University report found that between the 2012 and 2016 elections, voting turnout increased by 5.5

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DECEMBER 4, 2016

Robert Wells graduated from high school with a B+ average. Indeed in 2016 the federal government designated Tennessee’s VR grant “high risk” for most of the year, due to the state’s repeated inability to track how much money was being spent and on what. at Nashville State Community College. Photo: Meredith Kolodner.

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OCTOBER 23, 2018

Photos of the class of 2018 are shown on May 15, 2018, on the Onalaska High School front office wall in Onalaska, Washington. The vast majority of the school’s students — and in 2017, all of them — are accepted into at least one college. Historic photos of lumber yards hang in the high school lobby. ONALASKA, Wash.

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AUGUST 1, 2018

Brown is one of a growing number of young people in Illinois who have earned a high school diploma from School District 428, run by the state’s department of juvenile justice. According to state data, the number of young people in state juvenile justice facilities dropped from 901 at the end of 2012 to 386 in 2017.

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AUGUST 26, 2019

I’d dropped out of high school when my daughter was born but had gotten connected to LaGuardia’s Fatherhood Academy , which supports young fathers by helping them to finish high school and more. I planned to earn my high school equivalency and then get out. I was content working as a barista.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2018

When he fled Honduras for New Orleans two years ago, Carlos, now 16 and a high school junior, hoped for just two things: a quiet place to live and an opportunity to play real soccer on a real team. A high school squad, he thought, would be the best place to start. Few New Orleans high schools have soccer teams.

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JUNE 10, 2019

For younger school children, the study found a negative tie between the use of tablets in school and fourth-grade reading scores. But computer usage in schools was still novel then. That’s the equivalent of a year of education or an entire grade level.

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OCTOBER 16, 2017

A robot built by students to research endangered frogs in Lake Titicaca, in Peru, being tested in June, 2016, by Lindsey Hamblin (left), then a Skyline High School senior, and Callie Meyers, then a Skyline junior. In one back room at Skyline High School, you can learn all you need to know about St. LONGMONT, Colo. —

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JUNE 12, 2017

Eric Bredder (second from left), a teacher at Monticello High School, confers with students using the CNC milling machine, one of several computer-guided fabrication tools used by his classes. Josh Walton, principal, Walton Middle School, in sAlbemarle County, Virginia. Photo: Michael Craddock. CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. —

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AUGUST 22, 2016

million people live in places where state officials took over entire districts or individual schools in the past six years, according to News21 data collected from state government agencies. And parents say Highland Park’s once-proud school district has collapsed, hastened by four years under state control. More than 5.6

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AUGUST 11, 2023

Families got used to that,” said Elmer Roldan, of Communities in Schools of Los Angeles, which helps schools follow up with absent students. Since the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut, Negrón, who grew up in Puerto Rico, had become convinced mainland American schools were dangerous.

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DECEMBER 16, 2019

Trombone players in the David Douglas High School Marching Band march in the Starlight Parade in downtown Portland in June. He’s setting aside most of the money for college, but some goes to feed a school-year habit he just can’t kick: playing the trombone. Anna Medina, a high school flutist in Portland, Oregon. “We

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AUGUST 11, 2017

Community High School. million students — is that the 40-plus schools using the method are doing so voluntarily, as part of a grassroots movement. In communities where the shift has been mandated – high schools in and around Portland, Me., Government policy has also contributed to its adoption. Nolan said.

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AUGUST 4, 2017

The government could use it to give larger scholarships or grants to students in state universities, colleges and technical schools. After graduating from Northside High School in Columbus, she dreamed of attending Savannah College of Art and Design, but it was too expensive.

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MARCH 21, 2017

More than a quarter of college students in 2012 had dependents, and 15 percent were single with dependents, according to federal numbers. Related: Just as it wants students to speed up, government won’t pay for summer courses. He made College Summit the school’s coolest club. A quarter of college students work full time. “A

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APRIL 2, 2018

In 2012, a Times-Picayune reporter, Andrea Chen, dubbed Louisiana the “ world’s prison capital ” because of its uncommonly high incarceration rates. Profit played a part in the state’s penal excess. Currently, TOPS is benefitting the wrong families. Approximately 70 percent of the awardees were white.

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JUNE 10, 2017

Freshman Kylee Elderkin works on an assignment in English class at Nokomis High School in Newport on Friday, June 2, 2017. The Nokomis Regional High School ninth grader said she used to routinely miss key skills and do poorly on tests. Kylee Elderkin, student, Nokomis Regional High School.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Edmondson Elementary Principal Trish Malik, who has been at the school since 2012, visits with Cheryl Cook and Michelle Myers, who work on family and community partnerships at the Thompson School District, before a January family event. A decade ago, less than a third of the school’s students came from low-income families.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2022

In the 10 years through 2016, college tuition and fees increased by 63 percent , or three times as much as all the other products and services measured by the government, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reports. Still, undergraduate enrollment at the school has fallen steadily, from 1,414 in 2012, U.S. Credit: Davin McHenry.

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MARCH 7, 2018

Earlier in the school year, a white student came to the office of the Black Student Union, a space it shares with the student government, and told her she had no right to be there. “It If it was up to McNeil, the school would rename the buildings — and not just Vardaman Hall. “We

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JUNE 17, 2018

The guide also noted that starting in elementary school, all students take Spanish, art and music classes. The high school, which enrolls less than 200 students, has been able to offer as many as 17 Advanced Placement courses. Related: How the federal government abandoned the Brown v. Board of Education decision.

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AUGUST 11, 2016

Half a dozen of the 4,100 students in Dillon gathered in a conference room at Dillon High School and said they’re proud of their school and community, which is near the North Carolina border 70 miles northwest of Myrtle Beach. The growth in the graduation rate at Dillon High School over four years.

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